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404 THE MODEL RAILROADER -4 4 .... 3..036- . . . I4 ./ :,S *..i- 7% ,".•I'l•.- - ---- I Meet Carl A. Traub. CarI A Traub, 28, of 4821 W Vollmer Ave, Milwaukee, Wis, is an executive of a sash and door plant He has been a modelmaker for as long as he can remember, makmg models of almost anything that took his fancy, especially airplanes and ships He still has several ship models in his collection, including a large prize mnning clipper CarI took up model railroa(ling about a year and a half ago and thmks he has found the answer to his dreams, because now he can model practically anything and fit it Into his main hobby w.thout any trouble He takes pleasure in building models from scratch, using a mimmum of purchased parts-a can:yover from his earlier modeling days when parts and kits were not available His office lS located on the belt hne between the Milwaukee Road and the (&NW main line, which is within seemg distance He admits finding it difficult at times to keep his nose to the grmdstone when the hotshots roll by or when some interesting loads are being switched ill a nearby yard One of his principal worries now is Will his Infant son share his enthusiasm for the hobby, or will he turn up his nose at it9 --.- of track work, and I will try to avoid anything like it in the future. The general direction of the first loop was followed with a 2 per cent grade in order to raise the track enough to cross above the table-level track at the other end of the table. To make this stretch, extensions were fastened at three sides of the table, the grade was laid out, and a base of %" plywood was blocked up to the proper levels. Roadbed and track were laid directly on this base. Because this track was up against the wall and would be diflicult to get at later, I decided to landscape it as I went along. Using scrap screen wire, a foundation for the embankment was built up. On this screen a mixture of patching plaster and water (about as heavy as honey) was poured to fill out the mesh. In about half an hour-before the first coat was dry-a thinner coat of the same mixture was applied and shaped. I found that if the second coat is put on after the first has dried the adhesion will be very poor and the second coat is likely to fall off in places. Using casein (watet soluble) paint, which has absolutely no gloss, the embankment was painted to resemble grass where the slope permitted; and to resemble rock where the slope was too steep for grass to grow. but a double-pole double-throw switch in the right place took care of that. I set up the round- gressed to date because I have been too busy house with some trepidation, because buildings with other phases of construction. The track on that had been erected earlier were sabotaged by this grade is at present just a stub line, but as our young springer spaniel. Fortunately for both soon as time permits it will be extended to form of us, he has outgrown that habit. By now I had become tired of seeing the trains This is as far as actual landscaping has pro- chase their tails around the loop, and so I decided to expand the layout. This time, instead of just new table to form a figure 8. Here again the starting to build, I sat down at the drawing board track was built according to plan and required a and planned my work first. This helped me to minimum of interrupted running to install. This avoid later headaches and enabled me to build new table was built against the coal bin and gave most of the track in advance. I installed the sec- me a week's nasty work as a result. One Sunday tions in one evening and thus kept the layout in morning we heard a noise which we hoped was operating condition with very little lost time. snow sliding off the roof, but when I went downDue to space limitations it was necessary to install two switches and a crossing on a curve to stairs my heart sagged to see the coal bin pulled loose from its floor rnoorings and nny layout get out of the loop. This is a complicated piece pushed clear across the room. A lot of track was a return loop to allow continuous running of The rest of my original loop was extended on a trains.